Lindsey Biel, OTR/L is the co-author of the award-winning Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, with a foreword by Temple Grandin. She is a pediatric occupational therapist based in Manhattan, where she evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and young adults with sensory processing issues, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders, and other developmental challenges.
Lindsey specializes in remediating fine and gross motor delays, visual perceptual skill development, enhancing daily living skills, and improving sensory processing issues. She also helps families and schools to make simple modifications at home and school to enhance a child’s ability to play, learn, and thrive.
Lindsey writes articles for both professional and parenting publications and is a columnist for Autism Asperger Digest Magazine. She is the co-creator of the Sensory Processing Master Class DVD program. She runs the sensorysmarts.com website and has several free web presentations online. She is a popular speaker, teaching workshops to parents, therapists, doctors, and others on practical solutions for developmental challenges and sensory strategies at home, school, and in the community.
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when: Monday, December 6, 2010, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pmwhere: Havana Room, 306 East 76th Streetcost: $25rsvp: info@sparkonline.org (please include name, email, and telephone number)